Re: job market for oracle developers?

Jan Gelbrich wrote:

> > > You can use Developer Suite 5 or 6i on Oracle DB 8, 8i and afaik even
> 9i.
> > >
> >
> > how about developer suite 9i then? what databases does that cover?
> Afaik, all databases (7,7,8i,9i), and they say even non-oracle databases.
>
> > is it better to learn 6i?
>
> I did not use Developer Suite 9i yet, so I cannot compare.
>
> I started working with Developer 6i just 5 months ago, and I still have a
> long way to go, since I could not visit any courses for it.
> As far as I can see now, it is more difficult than administering the db
> itself. Forms is *very* complex application
> developement. And there are very few books on it available, even O´Reilly
> provides not even one !
>
> There are people, too, who say that Forms (in Developer Suite) is not state
> of the art,
> and who turn to Visual C++ to make their own
> Oracle Applications. On the other hand, then You must study C++, too ... I
> cannot code C++ well, so I stay to Forms,
> because there I can use PL/SQL. But this is everyones own decision...
>
> Regards, Jan

Comparing forms to C++ is like comparing an 18 wheeler to a Ferrari. They both do roughly the same thing. But I would hardly try to substitute one for the other.

One can do in Oracle Forms in a few days what would take a year to do in C++. A simple, yet fully functional Oracle Forms application with a parent-child relationship can be built in less than three minutes. I know because I've done it for my classes. In C++, in three minutes, you haven't gotten far from "hello world". And I'd just love to see that C++ application moved from Windows to UNIX to the web: Not going to happen.

With respect to the question originally asked by Ed-D ... you have a choice to make. You can either be a generalist and be mediocre at a lot of things. Or you can specialize and be an expert at something. There is absolutely no one that is an expert at Oracle and any other major programming tool that I have ever met though there are a lot of people that might think they are.

Daniel Morgan Received on Wed Jul 24 2002 - 10:12:20 CDT